Force FriendFeed To Refresh Your Tumblr Feed
by AJ on August 14, 2008
There are many ways you can refresh your feeds on FriendFeed. One of my favorite is Hao Chen’s “FriendFeed Refresh Feeds Button” userscript. However, if you are not a Greasemonkey fan or you simply do not use Firefox, there is a way to refresh a feed on FriendFeed.
I took Tumblr as an example for this post. So here goes… I just posted something at Tumblr and I can’t wait for FriendFeed to schedule the crawling of my feeds. Here are the quick steps to force FriendFeed to refresh it immediately:
1) Assuming you are already logged in, click on the “Share something” button (image)
2) Now, click on the “Import your stuff” link. No, you are not going to import your feed again.
3) Once you’ve done that, click on the feed that you want to be “refreshed”. In this case, I chose Tumblr. Click on it.
4) You will see something like this (below). Now click on the “Refresh feed” link.
5) You’re done! You should see the content now on your Friendfeed.
It should be noted that you shouldn’t abuse this functionality as it might put some stress on FriendFeed’s servers although I’m pretty sure they can handle it.
By the way, I am using the “Cleaner FriendFeed” userstyle in case you were wondering why I have a different look and feel. You can also use Cleaner FriendFeed. All you have to do is install the Stylish Firefox plugin then install the Cleaner FriendFeed userstyle.
Anyway, hope this helps someone today.
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